Contribution
Impact of neutrino nature on mass textures
Speakers
- Mr. Ricky Crisomeno TICSE REYES
Primary authors
- Mr. Ricky Crisomeno TICSE REYES (Pontificia Universidad Católica del Perú)
Co-authors
- Dr. Félix Napoleón DÍAZ DESPOSORIO (Universidad Autónoma del Perú)
Content
In the present work, we study the texture limits of neutrino mass matrices, considering the current values of the oscillation parameters and the observed tension between measurements of the phase $\delta_{\text{CP}}$ in the NOvA and T2K experiments. NOvA has reported $\delta_{\text{CP}} = (0.82^{+0.27}{-0.87}) \pi$, which minimizes the CP violation, while T2K has measured $\delta{\text{CP}} = (-0.6^{+0.22}{-0.18}) \pi$, which maximizes the CP violation. We propose that this discrepancy could be related to the manifestation of the Majorana nature of neutrinos in a quantum decoherence environment, as shown in PHYS. REV. D 105, 035010 (2022). In this context, we include non-zero Majorana phases in the calculations to assess how they are affected by different mass matrix textures. Our results show that in the inverted hierarchy the matrix components $M{ee}$ remain independent of $\delta_{\text{CP}}$ for various Majorana phase combinations, while in the normal hierarchy the components $M_{e\mu}$ and $M_{e\tau}$ are the most sensitive to variations in $\delta_{\text{CP}}$. These findings highlight the importance of including non-zero Majorana phases in the analysis of neutrino mass matrix textures, which might explain the observed tension between NOvA and T2K and new constraints on the mass matrix structure.